Italian Jazz Maestro -Mirko Guerrini   

 

with Dave Beck (drums), James Sherlock (guitar) and Nick Haywood (bass)    

7.00pm Thursday, August 04, 2011

MIRKO GUERRINI was born and trained in Florence and is currently the professor of saxophone at the Guiseppe Verdi School of Music at Prato. He has performed with many leading Italian musicians including Stefano Bollani, Stefano Battaglia, and Fabio Morgera. Guerrini's invitation is part of the Academy of Performing Arts' on-going agenda of inviting international artists as a part of the student learning process. Guerrini will be an artist-in-residence at the School of Music, Monash University, for a week, taking workshops and ensembles, as well as performing in concerts. On this occasion he will be performing with with Dave Beck (drums), James Sherlock (guitar) and Nick Haywood (bass).

Admission: $20.00 - $15.00 (IIC members)  

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

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Still Life Drawing Workshop  

(In English) 

10.00am-12.00pm, Friday, August 05, 2011 at the IIC   

On Friday 5 August a still-life drawing workshop with Marcello D'Amico will take place at the Institute, BYO materials. This workshop has been organized in conjunction with the exhibition.

Marcello D'Amico, Italian born, resides in Melbourne. Among many other appointments he is the Artistic Director and Founder of Aeolian Players and founding member of C.I.R.C.E.- International Centre of Research for Aeolian History and Culture (Malfa- Italy)..( Click here for further information ) 

Free admission

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Viva Italia! The Music of Mirko Guerrini

12.00pm on Sunday, August 07, 2011at Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University (Clayton Campus)   

A concert of Jazz with orchestra and jazz ensemble.

Monash Academy Orchestra conducted by the composer with Robert Burke, saxophone....(Click here for further information) 

Admission: $30.00 - $20.00 (concession)

For bookings please check the website of Monash University Academy of Performing Arts.

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A Garibaldi Follower in the Library

(In Italiano) 

7.00pm on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at the IIC

Piero Genovesi, past lecturer of Italian studies at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University is currently the Director of the Italian Australian Institute (IAI) at La Trobe University. He is specialised in the field of Italian Australian literature in which he has been involved for more than thirty years. Prof. Genovesi will give a talk about Ferdinando Gagliardi (Pisa 1843 - Melbourne 1898) whose life took place through one of the most turbulent periods of the unified Italy and coincided with the phase of rapid development of the English colonies in the southern hemisphere. Gagliardi is known in Australia for his work at the National Library of Victoria (of which he ordered the catalogue) and for his involvement in organizing the Great Exhibition in Melbourne in 1880....(Click here for further information)  

Free admission

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Di Alture ed Altre Utopie: An intercultural perspective

(In Italian) 

7.00pm, Thursday, August 18, 2011 at the IIC 

Edward Caruso will talk about his book, , which was written during his travels to Chile and Peru. Edward will highlight themes in this collection of poems, and explore how he came to write about Latin America in Italian, and publish his book in Melbourne.

Gerardo Papalia, Honorary Research Fellow in Italian Studies at La Trobe University, will host the talk. Luis Arteaga Marin, a singer/guitarist from Colombia, will perform several songs from the Chilean nueva cancion tradition. (Click here for further information)  

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Gems of the Italian and German Baroque      

7.00pm, Monday, August 22, 2011 at the IIC 

The well-known Australian musician, Elizabeth Anderson, will perform at the Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne with her son Jacob Lawrence on August 22. Elizabeth gives concerts in Europe every two years, either as a harpsichord soloist or in four-hands concerts with husband, Douglas Lawrence. She also appears regularly in Australian festivals and concert series. She is a principal artist with the Queensland Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She completed a Master of Music at the University of Melbourne with Roger Heagney and John O'Donnell and later studied with Colin Tilney and Alan Curtis.

Jacob Lawrence began his performing experience at the age of 6, when he joined the choir of the Scots' Church, where his father, Douglas Lawrence is the Director of Music. In 2010, he was admitted to the University of Melbourne's Extension Programme for gifted secondary school students and received first class honours for Chamber Music and Ensemble. Recently he has performed as a guest soloist at the University Parish Church of St Carthage's and St Michael's on Collins. In December 2010, Jacob sang several solos in the Scots' Church performance of Handel's Messiah and in the Glen Eira Choral Society's Christmas Oratorio.... (Click here for further information)   

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Giornata del lettore 

(In Italian)      

5.30pm-7.00pm, Tuesday, August 23, 2011

at the IIC 

An afternoon at the IIC, Melbourne, (5.00pm-6.30pm) organized by the lecturers from MAE (Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) with talks and activities inspired by the theme of the XI Week of the Italian language in the world, "Happy Birthday Italy" (programme to be announced).

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

(In Italian)      

3.00pm-4.30pm, Wednesday, August 24, 2011

at the IIC 

The global success of Amara Lakhous' book "Clash of civilization over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio" (2006) reveals an Italian society of multiple languages, of worlds and of people from all over the world. Through music, videos and reading the presentation will bring the audience to discover  the Italian multiculturalism where Rome becomes a new a city narrated by its new protagonists, 'citizens of the Italian language'.

Maria Vittoria Olivi,  researcher (Master) at Monash University will conduct the presentation in collaboration with prof. Gerardo Papalia.   

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Reggio Emilia Project  

Guest speaker Jan Millikan 

(In English)      

7.30pm-8.30pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011

at the IIC 

Guest speaker Jan Millikan has been working with the Educational Project in the City of Reggio Emilia since 1992 when she took the first of her many  Australian study tours to  visit the schools and subsequently set-up the Reggio Australia Information Exchange.  She is currently the Australian representative to the   Reggio Children International network, and she will be attending the annual meeting in Reggio in September.

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Primary School Teaching:solo numeri e colori?

(In Italian)      

5.00pm-6.30pm, Friday, August 26, 2011

at the IIC 

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

A l'alta fantasia qui manco' possa : Sognando con Dante

(In English and Italian) 

7.00pm, Friday, August 26, 2011 at the IIC 

Introduction and reading of Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno II, X; Purgatorio XXXI, Paradiso XXXIII, presented by Dante scholars and academics, under the direction of Dr. Adriana Diomedi. Each canto is followed by a medieval musical interlude culminating in a mini concert directed by Prof. John Griffiths. The suggestive presentation includes visual imagery of the characters of the relevant Canti.   

Performers: Prof. John Griffiths (lute), Cristina Russo (soprano), Daniel Thomson (tenor), Matthew Thomson (tenor)....(Click here for further information)  

Free admission  

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Sunday 28 August- Friday 30 September, 2011 at the IIC Melbourne, Co.As.It and the IIC Sydney

Painted paper, bamboo sticks and cotton thread. These simple elements are at the base of a project that in these years has addressed Anna Onesti's increasing research in the studies of lightness and of movement: the construction process of the kites.

" Le lanterne" are born from this research executed in collaboration with Fabrizio Di Pietro whom has completed all the parts relating to the construction of the bamboo structures.

These shapes that contain and amplify the light have been of inspiration in the creation of Anna's work "Di tre colori" that celebrates a heavily symbolic event such as the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. She has have created 150 lanterns of paper tinted in the colour of our national flag...(Click here for further information) 

This installation will be divided into 3 sections and will be on show during August and September in both Melbourne and Sydney: 

• At the IIC, Melbourne: from 29 August to 30 September    

Exclusive preview and artist talk at the IIC Melbourne on Saturday 27 August (This is an invitation-only event for the IIC members.)  

• At the Co.As.It., Melbourne: from 28 August to 30 September

Opening ceremony at the Co.As.It on Sunday 28 August  

• At the IIC, Sydney: from 1 to 30 September    

For further information about the opening ceremony and the exhibition at the IIC Sydney, please check the IIC Sydney website. 

Exhibition: Free admission  

Workshop/Seminar on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) for teachers of Italian- Primary and Secondary 

(In Italian)      

4.30pm-6.30pm, Thursday, September 1, 2011

at the Co.As.It. 

Free admission   

For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it

Ongoing Event

Italian Contemporary Jewellery. Padua and its Jewellery School  

Until Sunday August 14, 2011 at RMIT Gallery  

The RMIT Gallery in Melbourne will be hosting an absolute first in Australia, an exhibition entitled 'Italian Contemporary Jewellery: Padua and its Jewellery School' in the context of the State Design Festival.

The exhibition, created by 16 goldsmiths from the Pietro Selvatico Institute in the City of Padova, offers the opportunity for a lively cultural insight into more than 150 works, many of which belong to collections from prestigious European museums. Stylistic developments, starting from 'figurative primitivism' in the post-war period by Mario Pinton, can be compared to the influence of Pragmatic, Kinetic and Minimalist art from the sixties to the eighties. Post modern experimental work of the eighties and the use of geometry in the work of Visintin and Pavan, starting from the nineties, are also exhibited.       

Exhibition from 17 June to 14 August Monday-Friday11.00am-5.00pm Saturday12.00pm-5.00pm

Free Admission  

For further information, please visit the website of the RMIT Gallery at: www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery 

L' Imperfetto (Imperfect)

Until Sunday, August 21, 2011 at Counihan Gallery  

Rosetta Pavone, Printmaker, Painter and Installation artist works with mixed media in Melbourne and Italy. Sicilian born, her work explores the complexities of her traditional culture, issues of migration female identity and domesticity. Rosetta Pavone's mixed media artworks both honour and subvert cultural traditions and notions of perfection. Central to the concept of perfection in Italian culture is La Bella Figura, which underpins nearly every aspect of this society such as behaviour, language,customs and etiquette. These works scrutinize the illusion of domestic perfection, suggesting that not everything is what it seems.

For further information, please visit the Counihan Gallery 2011 Exhibition Program website.    

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Cistern of my Body  

Until Thursday, August 25, 2011

On August 2, Marcello D'Amico gave a presentation on the poetry collection "Cistern of my body" by Canadian poet Rona Shaffran. The booklet contains artwork by Marcello D'Amico himself who will also be talking about his own art and of his artistic rebirth after he discovered the nude. "The illustrations in this book are not directly connected to an individual poem. However many were inspired by Rona Shaffran's lyrical poetry and visually express the whole concept of her first poetry collection, Cistern of my Body".  (Marcello d'Amico) 

On this occasion a selection of works by the artist, including drawings and sculptures, will be displayed and made available for public viewing at the Institute until Friday 26 August. 

Monday to Thursday: 9.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm -6.00pm, Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm  

Free admission   

Between sea and sky: Songs of a voyage -     

Paintings by Billy Doolan   

Until Friday December 30, 2011 at the IIC 

An absolute world first, this unique exhibition presents a series of paintings depicting the island of Sicily through the eyes of the Queensland indigenous artist Billy Doolan. The paintings, created using the indigenous iconography of the artists' homeland - far north Qld and Palm Island - express, with stunning lyricism, the impact that Sicily, its people, traditions and history have had on the artist...(Click here for further information) 

Monday to Thursday: 9.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm -6.00pm, Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm

Free Admission